COLLEGE: MissionSUBJECT (DISCIPLINE) NAME):EngCOURSE NUMBER:208

Los Angeles Community College District

COURSE OUTLINE

(Replaces PNCR and Course Outline)

Section I: BasicCourse Information

OUTLINE STATUS:

1.COLLEGE:

2.SUBJECT (DISCIPLINE) NAME[1]):Eng

(40 characters, no abbreviations

3.COURSE NUMBER: 208

4.COURSE TITLE: American Literature II

5.UNITS: 3

6.CATALOG COURSE DESCRIPTION -- Provide a description of the course, including an overview of the topics covered:(limit of forty words)

Presents representative pieces of American literature from the Civil War to the present. The selections are taken from a wide variety of literary forms, such as essays, short stories, poems, letters, speeches, and novels.
  1. CLASS SCHEDULE COURSE DESCRIPTION -- Provide a brief description of the course, including an overview of the topics covered:(limit of forty words, description must match the above)

Presents representative pieces of American literature from the Civil War to the present. The selections are taken from a wide variety of literary forms, such as essays, short stories, poems, letters, speeches, and novels.
  1. INITIALCOLLEGE APPROVAL DATE:
  1. UPDATES (check all applicable boxes) – Identify the area(s) being updated/changed from the current course
    outline that is on file in Academic Affairs:

Content/Objectives Course Title / Unit Value

Prerequisite / Corequisite / AdvisoryDistrictwide Course Attributes

Other (describe)Course Description

  1. CLASS HOURS:

“Standard Hours” per Week (based on 18 weeks) / Total Hours per Term (hrs per week x 18) / Units
Lecture: / 3.00 / 54 / 3.00
Lab/activity (w/ homework):
Lab/activity (w/o homework):
Total:

Note: The Carnegie Rule and Title 5, section 55002 sets forth the following minimum standards: 1 unit = 1 hour lecture per week, 2 hours homework per week; OR 2 hours per week of lab with homework; OR 3 hours of lab per week without homework. The hours per week are based on a standard 18-week calendar. Lecture also includes discussion and/or demonstration hours, laboratory includes activity and/or studio hours.

  1. PREREQUISITES, COREQUISITES, ADVISORIES ON RECOMMENDED PREPARATION, and LIMITATION ON ENROLLMENT

Note:The LACCD’s Policy on Prerequisites, Corequisites and Advisories requires that the curriculum committee take a separate action verifying that a course’s prerequisite, corequisite or advisory is an “appropriate and rational measure of a student’s readiness to enter the course or program” and that the prerequisite, corequisite or advisory meets the level of scrutiny delineated in the policy.

.Prerequisites: (If Yes, complete information below)

Subject / Number / Course Title / Units / Validation Approval Date (official use only)
English / 101 / College Reading and Composition I / 3
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.Corequisite: (If Yes, complete information below)

Subject / Number / Course Title / Units / Validation Approval Date (official use only)
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.Advisories: (If Yes, complete information below)

Subject / Number / Course Title / Units / Validation Approval Date (official use only)
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  1. REPETITIONS --Number of times course may be repeated for credit (three maximum): 0(see: Section V, #9)
  1. OTHER LIMITATIONS ON ENROLLMENT(see Title 5, Section 58106 and Board Rule 6803 for policy on allowable limitations. Other appropriate statutory or regulatory requirements may also apply):

Section II: Course Content and Objectives

  1. COURSE CONTENT AND OBJECTIVES:

COURSE CONTENT AND SCOPE –Lecture:
If applicable, outline the topics included in the lecture portion of the course (outline reflects course description, all topics covered in class). / Hours per topic / COURSE OBJECTIVES - Lecture (If applicable):
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to… (Use action verbs – see Bloom’s Taxonomy below for “action verbs requiring cognitive outcomes.”)
1. Introduction: literary periods and the “cannon.”
2 - 3. American Lyric: Walt Whitman and Emily Dickenson.
4 – 7. Realism, Regionalism and Naturalism:
8. The Rise of Black American Literature:
9. Literary Modernism: The Lyric
10-11. Second Wave of American Literary Realism:
12. The Harlem Renaissance
13 Post-war Poetry and Fiction: Experimentation and Realism
14. Women Writers and Feminist Protest
15. Postmodern American Literature
16. Diversity in Contemporary Fiction / 3
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6 / Review the syllabus and SLO. Define the cannon and categorize literary periods. Debate the efficacy of both.
Analyze the lyrical response to historical and cultural events including the Civil War, Reconstruction, and gender politics of the day.
Examine the use of various techniques to create the effect of realism; the burgeoning interest in regionalism, class, and gender; literature’s critique of social norms and forces. Authors include Mark Twain, Henry James, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, and Jack London.
Discuss the themes of racial inequality in the literature of black Americans such as Booker T. Washington, W.E.B Du Bois, Charles Waddell Chestnutt. Compare and contrast the critical realism of such authors with that of contemporary white authors.
Analyze the use of image, symbolism, myth, prose poetry and other modernist techniques in the works of Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Hilda Doolittle, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore and Gertrude Stein.
Compare and contrast the realism of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, John Dos Passos, and John Steinbeck. Examine modernist fiction’s critique of social norms, societal problems, and the human condition.
Discuss the Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wrights, Jean Toomer and other black American authors who embodied the creative genius and social criticism of the Harlem Renaissance.
Examine the innovative poetic styles of The Black Mountain School, The San Francisco School, The Beats poets, and The New York School. Analyze the unique contributions to realism of post-war fictions writers such as Vladimir Nabokov, John Cheever and Jack Kerouac.
Discuss the works of women writers such as Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Adrienne Rich, Elizabeth Bishop, Audre Lorde, Rita Dove, Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, and Joan Didion and their feminist critique.
Compare and contrast the postmoderist styles and themes of authors such as Donald Barthelme, Raymond Carver, Sam Shepard, and David Mamet.
Assess the diversity expressed in the works of authors such as Annie Proulx, Michael Cunningham, Julia Alvarez, Elmaz Adinader and Jhumpa Lahiri. Examine the contribution to American literature of these global authors who whose racial and ethnic identities and their dual allegiances offer a complex addition to the cannon
Total Lecture hours* / 54
COURSE CONTENT AND SCOPE -- Laboratory:
If applicable, outline the topics included in the laboratory portion of the course (outline reflects course description, all topics covered in class). / Hours per Topic / COURSE OBJECTIVES - Laboratory (If applicable):
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to… (Use action verbs – see Bloom’s Taxonomy below for “action verbs requiring cognitive outcomes.”)[2]
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Total Lab hours*

*Total lecture and laboratory hours (which include the final examination) must equal totals on page 1.

Bloom’s Taxonomy

simple skills <------> complex skills
Critical Thinking
Knowledge
define
repeat
record
list
recall
name
relate
underline
/ Comprehension
translate
restate
discuss
describe
recognize
explain
express
identify
locate
report
review
tell
/ Application
interpret
apply
employ
use
demonstrate
dramatize
practice
illustrate
operate
schedule
shop
sketch
/ Analysis
distinguish
analyze
differentiate
appraise
calculate
experiment
test
compare
contrast
criticize
diagram
inspect
debate
inventory
question
relate
solve
examine
categorize / Synthesis
compose
plan
propose
design
formulate
arrange
assemble
collect
construct
create
set up
organize
prepare / Evaluation
judge
appraise
evaluate
rate
compare
value
revise
score
select
choose
assess
estimate
measure
  1. REQUIRED TEXTS:

Provide a representative list of textbooks and other required reading; include author, title and date of publication:

Belasco, Susan and Linck Johnson. The Bedford Anthology of American Literature: Volume Two: 1865 to the Present. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin Press, 2008.
  1. SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS:

Reading assignments may include, but are not limited to the following:

Novels that are not included in the anthologies, such as Huckleberry Finn, As I Lay Dying, and Their Eyes Were Watching God.
  1. WRITING ASSIGNMENTS:

Title 5, section 55002 requires grades to be “based on demonstrated proficiency in subject matter and the ability to demonstrate that proficiency, at least in part, by means of essays or, in courses where the curriculum committee deems them to be appropriate, by problem solving exercises or skills demonstrations by students.” Writing assignments in this course may include, but are not limited to the following:

Write a paper that compares and contrast the ethnic voice in the works of two contemporary "global" American authors.
  1. REPRESENTATIVE OUTSIDE ASSIGNMENTS:

Out of class assignments may include, but are not limited to the following:

Write a ten-page term paper that requires library and Internet research. Documentation must be in accordance with the Modern Language Association's standards.
  1. REPRESENTATIVE ASSIGNMENTS THAT DEMONSTRATE CRITICAL THINKING:

Title 5, section 55002(a) requires that a degree-applicable course have a level of rigor that includes “critical thinking and the understanding and application of concepts determined by the curriculum committee to be at college level”. Critical thinking may include, but is not limited to analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Provide examples of assignments that demonstrate critical thinking.

Students will read passages from a selection of short stories representative of a movement in American literature (early twentieth –century realism) and write a critical essay analyzing the use and effects of journalistic influences in those writings.
  1. METHODS OF EVALUATION:

Title 5, section 55002 requires grades to be “based on demonstrated proficiency in subject matter and the ability to demonstrate that proficiency, at least in part, by means of essays, or, in courses where the curriculum committee deems them to be appropriate, by problem solving exercises or skills demonstrations by students.” Methods of evaluation may include, but are not limited to the following (please note that evaluation should measure the outcomes detailed “Course Objectives” at the beginning of Section II):

Standardized Tests / Criterion Reference Tests
Observance Record of Student
Performance / Homework
Essays/Essay Test Midterm / Written Compositions
Laboratory Reports / Oral Presentations
Term Papers, Projects, Reports / Class Participation
Problem –solving Exercises / Skills Demonstrations
Final Exam
Other (specify):
  1. METHODS OF INSTRUCTION:

Methods of instruction may include, but are not limited to the following:

Lecture

Discussion

Laboratory

Activity

Field Experience

Independent Study

Other (explain)

  1. SUPPLIES:

List the supplies the student must provide.

  1. COMPUTER COMPETENCY:

If applicable, explain how computer competency is included in the course.

Students will be required to conduct library research in order to write a term paper.
  1. INFORMATION COMPETENCY:

Information competency is the ability to find, evaluate use, and communicate information in all its various formats. It combines aspects of library literacy, research methods and technological literacy. Information competency includes consideration of the ethical and legal implications and requires the application of both critical thinking and communications skills. If applicable, explain how information competency is included in the course.

Students will conduct library and Internet research.
  1. DIVERSITY:

If applicable, explain how diversity (e.g., cultural, gender, etc.) is included in the course.

Does not meet Cultural Diversity requirements.

13.SCANS COMPETENCIES (required for all courses with vocational TOP Codes; recommended for all courses):

SCANS (Secretary’s Commission on Necessary Skills) are skills the Department of Labor identified, in consultation with business and industry leaders, which reflect the skills necessary for success in the workplace. Check the appropriate boxes to indicate the areas where students will develop the following skills (please note that all SCANS competencies do not apply to all courses):

RESOURCES

Managing Time: Selecting relevant goal-related activities, ranking them in order of importance, allocating time to activities, and understanding, preparing and following schedules.

Managing Money: Using or preparing budgets, including making cost and revenue forecasts; keeping detailed records to track budget performance, and making appropriate adjustments.

Managing Material and Facility Resources: Acquiring, storing, allocating, and distributing materials, supplies, parts, equipment, space or final products in order to make the best use of them.

INTERPERSONAL

Participating as Member of a Team: Working cooperatively with others and contributing to group’s efforts with ideas, suggestions and effort.

Teaching Others New Skills: Helping others learn needed knowledge and skills.

Exercising Leadership: Communicating thoughts, feelings, and ideas to justify a position, encouraging, persuading, convincing or otherwise motivating an individual or group, including responsibly challenging existing procedures, policies or authority.

Negotiating: Working toward agreement that may involve exchanging specific resources or resolving divergent interests.

Working with Cultural Diversity: Working well with men and women and with people from a variety of ethnic, social, or educational backgrounds.

INFORMATION

Acquiring and Evaluating Information: Identifying a need for data, obtaining the data from existing sources or creating them, and evaluating their relevance and accuracy.

Organizing and Maintaining Information: Organizing, processing and maintaining written or computerized records and other forms of information in a systematic fashion.

Interpreting and Communicating Information: Selecting and analyzing information and communicating the results of others, using oral, written, graphic, pictorial, or multimedia methods.

Using Computers to Process Information: Employing computers to acquire, organize, analyze and communicate information.

SYSTEMS

Understanding Systems: Knowing how social, organizational and technological systems work and operating effectively with them.

Monitoring and Correcting Performance: Distinguishing trends, predicting impacts of actions on system operations, diagnosing deviations in the functioning of a system/organization, and taking necessary steps to correct performance.

Improving or Designs Systems: Making suggestions to modify existing systems in order to improve the quality of products or services and developing new or alternative systems.

TECHNOLOGY

Selecting Technology: Judging which sets of procedures, tools or machines, including computers and their programs, will produce the desired results.

Applying Technology to Tasks: Understanding overall intent and proper procedures for setting up and operating machines, including computers and their reprogramming systems.

Maintaining and Troubleshooting Equipment: Preventing, identifying, or solving problems with equipment, including computers and other technologies.

14.LIBRARY/LEARNING RESOURCES – Complete 1 – 3 in consultation with College Librarian:

1.LIBRARY BOOK COLLECTION - Review the library book collection by searching the online catalog. Explain how the book collection supports or does not support the course. Consider age and subject content when determining the relevancy of the collection to the course content.
There are numerous books in the collections dealing with American literature from 1860 to the present, among these many are e-books on the subject.
2.PERIODICAL COLLECTION - Review the periodical collection by searching the periodical database. Explain how the periodical titles held by the college library and the full-text titles in the database are relevant or not relevant to the course content.
Through EBSCOhost students can access dozens of scholarly journals dealing with American literature.
3.ADDITIONAL MATERIAL - List additional materials for the Library/LRC to purchase that would support the course content.

Section III: Relationship to College Programs

  1. THIS COURSE WILL BE AN APPROVED REQUIREMENT FOR AN APPROVED ASSOCIATE DEGREE OR CERTIFICATE PROGRAM:
  1. If yes, thecourse will be a portion of the “approved program” listed on the State Chancellor’s Inventory of Approved Programs (approved programs can be found on the State Chancellor’s Office website at

Associate of Arts in Liberal Arts

NOTE: In order for a course to be approved as a requirement for an associate degree or certificate program, the program must be listed on the State Chancellor’s Office Inventory of Approved Programs AND the course must be listed in the college catalog as either a requirement or an elective for the program. If course is not part of an approved program at the college adopting the course, it will be considered to be a “stand-alone” course, and is subject to the State Chancellor’s approval criteria. The college must complete and submit the Chancellor’s Office “APPLICATION FOR APPROVAL OF CREDIT” form. Certain courses are granted “blanket approval" by the State Chancellor’s Office and do not require separate approval. See the Chancellor’s Office Program and Course Approval Handbook for details. LACCD Skills Certificates are notState approved programs and are not listed on the Chancellor’s Office Inventory of Approved Programs.

  1. GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS FOR THE ASSOCIATE DEGREE STATUS:
  1. Area requested: date:

If applicable, provide an explanation of how the course meets the General Education parameters for one of the five general education areas – Natural Sciences, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Humanities, Language and Rationality, Health and Physical Education -- contained in Board Rule 6201.14 -General Education Requirements.

  1. 2nd Area requested: date:

If applicable, provide an explanation of how the course meets General Education parameters for an additional general education area – Natural Sciences, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Humanities, Language and Rationality, Health and Physical Education -- contained in Board Rule 6201.14 - General Education Requirements.